High speed network issues in a distributed visualization application

Author

Krystynak, John

Author_Institution

NASA Ames Res. Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

16-20 Nov 1992

Firstpage

267

Lastpage

274

Abstract

The author examines the issues in creating an UltraNet TCP/IP socket-based distributed application. The visualization computation is performed on a Connection Machine, and the results are rendered using a Silicon Graphics 4D/320 VGX workstation. The UltraNet network facilitates high-bandwidth communication between the computers. Ideally, taking advantage of the UltraNet is no more complex than developing TCP/IP and UNIX BSD socket-type applications on a single machine. In practice, there are several problems in developing an application using the UltraNet. The author identifies potential problems and discusses techniques for overcoming them. The performance of UltraNet communication is measured and found to be 10 MB/s for SGI 4D/320 workstations

Keywords

computer networks; data visualisation; distributed processing; Connection Machine; SGI 4D/320 workstations; Silicon Graphics 4D/320 VGX workstation; UNIX BSD socket-type applications; UltraNet TCP/IP socket-based distributed application; distributed visualization application; high speed network issues; high-bandwidth communication; visualization computation; Application software; Computer applications; Computer graphics; Computer networks; High-speed networks; Rendering (computer graphics); Silicon; TCPIP; Visualization; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Supercomputing '92., Proceedings

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2630-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUPERC.1992.236676

Filename

236676